Recorded live in Los Angeles, CA on 11/22/76 or 11/23/76. This show
is generally said to have been recorded on 11/26/73, but according to the
tour schedule in Gene Odom's "Remembering the Freebirds of Southern Rock"
book, they played LA on the 22nd and 23rd. So it's most likely one of these
two dates. Here we have Lynyrd Skynyrd opening up for The Who on their Quadrophenia
Tour (incidentally,
The Who Concert Guide
supports these two dates as well).

Recorded live in Santa Monica, CA on 5/20/74. The
Robert Johnson tune (using Cream's arrangement)
was a favorite encore song for the band. In fact, the
band played this after Free Bird here and at many other
concerts early on. Much faster than the one on One
More From The Road.

Recorded live in Paris, France on 12/9/74.
This version was recorded one month prior to its
studio recording for "Nuthin' Fancy". Bob Burns
plays the drums, in what would have to be one of his last
concert appearances with the band.

Recorded during the Nuthin' Fancy
sessions. Here's the only known unreleased studio recording by the original
Skynyrd. The song is unfinished, and you can hear an annoyed Ronnie Van
Zant yell "Cut" at the end of the song. Great song that would have fit right
in on Nuthin' Fancy.

Recorded live in St.
Petersburg, FL on 3/27/75. "Whiskey Rock-A-Roller" was the first Skynyrd
opening song to seague directly into "I Ain't The One". Later "Double
Trouble" and then "Workin' For MCA" would serve this function.

Recorded live
at the Winterland in San Francisco, CA on 4/27/75. Billy
Powell was absent from this show, so the band had to
find a substitute for his piano part in Call Me The Breeze.
Lee Freeman, who had played with Ed King in
Strawberry Alarm Clock and would later play on Gimme
Back My Bullets , blows the harp.

Recorded live in Bristol, England on 2/10/76. This was
Skynyrd's first gig with the Honkettes.

Tuesday's Gone [ STREAM
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Recorded live at the Winterland in San Francisco,
CA on 3/3/76. Beautiful version of a song that was
not played live very often. The Honkettes sound great
as usual.

T For Texas [ STREAM
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Recorded live at the Winterland in San Francisco,
CA on 3/3/76. Still a few months before Steve
Gaines would join the band, Skynyrd is joined by
Hughie Thomasson and Billy Jones of the Outlaws (Skynyrd's
opening act). Hughie would join the band as a member roughly
twenty years later. Here's the order of the solos: Gary,
Hughie, Billy Jones, Allen, Billy Powell.

Recorded live in Philadelphia, PA on 4/16/76. Outlaws
and future Lynyrd Skynyrd member Hughie Thomasson again joins the band
for T For Texas, this time without Billy Jones. A Collins/Rossington/Thomasson
guitar lineup would have been interesting.

Recorded in Leon Wilkeson's living room in 1976.
Steve Gaines had just joined the band, and this
recording features Steve working on some of his
licks with Allen Collins. Steve and Allen do some bits
from Workin' For MCA, Sweet Home Alabama, Double Trouble,
Simple Man, and a more or less complete Searching. Some
fascinating stuff here.

Recorded live in Manchester, England on 2/4/77. Gary
screws up and plays the intro to That Smell while the rest of the band
launches into Whiskey Rock-A-Roller. Billy hears this and stops playing
as well. They manage to get it together and do a pretty respectable version
of the song.

Recorded at a pre-show soundcheck in Sheffield, England
on 2/5/77. Features Steve Gaines on vocals! Ronnie
preferred not to do soundchecks in fear of hurting his voice.
Steve does a great job singing here.

Haunted House (Soundcheck) [
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Recorded at the 2/5/77 soundcheck in Sheffield, England.
This oldie was originally recorded in 1964 by Jumpin' Gene
Simmons (not the Kiss bassist). A nice little jam. Steve
is on vocals yet again.

Recorded live in Asbury Park, NJ on 7/13/77. The
last song from the last known recording of the
original band in concert. Rumor has it that a
complete recording of one of the "Tour Of The Survivors"
shows from the week before the plane crash exists,
but it hasn't turned up so far. After this concert, the
band would only play 8 more shows.